The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce … barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and … states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, we explore the influence of women in top …

A vast labor literature has found evidence of a glass ceiling, whereby women are under-represented among senior … participants about the ability of the men and women in senior management. As such, financial data hold the promise of potentially …

ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling …

There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …

The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce … barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and … states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, we explore the influence of women in top …

In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in entrepreneurship as women. Based on … decision to become selfemployed to test for differences between women and men in the ceteris paribus impact of several …. A core finding is that the difference between men and women in both the extent and the effect of considering fear of …

where the presence of women at management is higher are driven in a more democratic fashion, with more interpersonal and …